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Native Youth Olympics athlete Nathan Blake performs an Alaskan High kick at the Alaska Native Sisterhood Camp 70 Summer Solstice Music Festival on Saturday, June 21, 2025. (Ellie Ruel / Juneau Empire)

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Music festival celebrates summer solstice

Alaska Native Sisterhood Camp 70 hosts 10-hour fundraising event at Áakw Landing

Chris Storey shows where he found an incapacitated man in an embankment along Glacier Highway in Lemon Creek during the early morning hours of Monday, June 16, 2025. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire)

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Man who collapses near roadside rescued in early morning hours by passerby

Chris Storey, a former adult care worker who was homeless until April, assists man in distress.

Volunteers and Trail Mix staff spread gravel on the Auk Nu Trail on Saturday, June 7, 2025. (Natalie Buttner / Juneau Empire)

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Trail Mix Inc. commemorates National Trails Day

Volunteers working on the Auk Nu Trail demonstrate continued support for local trails.

An employee stocks the shelves in the cereal aisle of a store in Fayetteville, Ark., on Oct. 12, 2016. (Melissa Lukenbaugh/The New York Times)

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Gimme A Smile: Post-pandemic, pre-tariff grocery shopping

We survived the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we survived the Terrible Toilet Paper Troubles. Nothing like a shortage of…

Laa.éi Kathleen John leads the Yées Ḵu.oo dance group through the Haida entrance song at the Juneau Maritime Festival on Saturday, May 3, 2025. (Jasz Garrett / Juneau Empire)

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A merry 15th annual Juneau Maritime Festival despite the rain

“This kind of feels like it’s just for us.”

Gerald Thill, 7, inspects a weathered can before placing it in a litter bag during the annual citywide cleanup in 2023. (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire file photo)

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Community invited to come together to create a cleaner Juneau

Annual litter-free pickups from separate organizations take place Saturday in celebration of Earth Day.

Andy Romanoff, the executive director of the nonprofit organization Alaska Heat Smart, speaks at an empty-chair town hall held for U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) on Thursday, March 20, 2025. (Jasz Garrett / Juneau Empire)

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Juneau shows up for democracy at empty-chair town hall

Constituents across Alaska feel unheard by congressional delegation, take the lead in community outreach.

A free children’s dance concert produced by Sybil Davis featured story dances, rock n’ roll and jazz. This photo was published in the Juneau Empire on March 6, 1981. (Mark Kelley / Juneau Empire file photo)

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Glide into 50 years with Juneau Dance Theatre at a celebratory gala

“We’re big enough now where we can offer something for everyone.”

Students play trumpets at the first annual Jazz Fest in 2024. (Photo courtesy of Sandy Fortier)

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Join the second annual Juneau Jazz Fest to beat the winter blues

Four-day music festival brings education of students and Southeast community together.

The Juneau Symphony rehearses for its winter mainstage concert in the Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé auditorium on Jan. 23, 2025. (Jasz Garrett / Juneau Empire)

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Juneau Symphony’s winter mainstage concert features Juneau guitarist

The symphony will play a guitar concerto for the first time.

Twin rainbows are seen from the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center on Wednesday. (Laurie Craig / Juneau Empire)

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Neighbors briefs

Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center shifts to winter hours

From left to right: Jeff Smith, Tanna Peters and Gwenna Corvez return for food after finishing pulling insulation out of two crawlspaces in a row on Saturday morning. (Jasz Garrett / Juneau Empire)

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Juneau comes together to help residents recover from the Mendenhall River flood

Hauling wet fiberglass insulation from crawlspaces is currently the biggest need

The aftermath of the flood is seen in Maggie Nolen’s basement apartment on Tuesday afternoon. (Jasz Garrett / Juneau Empire)

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Juneau residents impacted by the Mendenhall River flood begin recovery step by step

Volunteers help salvage homes and belongings after record flood causes widespread damage.

Juno, a 7-year-old Siberian Husky and Alaskan Malamute mix, is officially up for adoption through Juneau Animal Rescue as of Monday. (Jasz Garrett / Juneau Empire)

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‘Special street dog’ Juno searches for her forever home

“We just want to make sure she goes to a good, loving home.”

Mayor Beth Weldon cuts a ribbon for Capitol Park’s opening Saturday with John Pugh, Juneau Park Foundation vice chair and Juneau Community Foundation board president. (Jasz Garrett / Juneau Empire)

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Newly remodeled Capitol Park welcomes community at ribbon-cutting ceremony

“I’m just looking forward to my great-grandchildren using this park.”

Leeann Thomas, the owner of the Triangle Club for the last 25 years, stands behind the bar with her employee Dita Sharpley on Tuesday. (Jasz Garrett / Juneau Empire)

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The Triangle Club, Juneau’s historic three-generation bar, is for sale

Owner of 25 years says she’d love bar to stay local with “fresh ideas.”

Left: Michael Orelove points out to his grandniece, Violet, items inside the 1994 Juneau Time Capsule at the Hurff Ackerman Saunders Federal Building on Friday, Aug. 9, 2019. Right: Five years later, Jonathon Turlove, Michael’s son, does the same with Violet. (Credits: Michael Penn/Juneau Empire file photo; Jasz Garrett/Juneau Empire)

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Family of Michael Orelove reunites to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Juneau Time Capsule

“It’s not just a gift to the future, but to everybody now.”

Athletes practice new moves while wrestling during a 2023 Labor Day weekend clinic at the Juneau Youth Wrestling Club. (Clarise Larson / Juneau Empire file photo)

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Neighbors briefs

Juneau Youth Wrestling Club hosting two clinics this summer

Juno, a canine companion to local resident Steven Kissack, is rousted from her slumber by the approach of another dog at the sheltered entrance of a building on Front Street on Dec. 24, 2023. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire file photo)

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Juno ‘safe, fed, and warm’ at Juneau Animal Rescue

Offers to adopt dog flood in after owner fatally shot, but shelter says “safe-keep” period necessary.

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Neighbors: Letters of thanks

Thanks to Juneau Community Foundation and CBJ for supporting elders